A topic we regularly hear about is the turnover of employees and the desire (often sheer necessity) to retain people within the organisation. Often it is related to (young) talent (often millennials), however, usually it concerns employees in general. On the other hand, we also frequently hear that it is difficult to keep employees, especially …
How the employees in your organisation really doing? We often visit organisations where some leaders are thoroughly examining this and others have far less attention for this. That is a shame. Especially since almost every leader will call themselves ‘people focussed’. That’s why we think this should be a topic for every leader. After noting the big difference in this area, we hear the …
Challenge. A word we often hear, very often. Organisations want it, leaders want it, employees want it. Being challenged, accepting challenges and delivering on challenges. I regularly wonder whether we realise what this means. Because there is no challenges without sacrifice and with a challenge comes the possibility to fail. Because a real challenge isn’t easy. I fit would be …
Personal development is HOT: Companies want it, employees want it, everybody wants it! The goals are varied, from ‘developing as consultant’, to ‘strengthening collaboration’. From ‘increasing commercial strength’, and ‘add value on a strategic level’ to ‘communicate more directly’. All great goals, but then… Sometimes goals can be to big and abstract, and that is when we …
Personal development is hot. A training here, a workshop there. All very useful, good that it is being done and let’s continue doing it. But it should not be a replacement for facilitating personal development on the job. From my perspective, this often seems to be the case. Making mistakes is allowed. I phrase I often …
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Many people believe that creativity is an innate talent – something that is hard to learn or develop. Normally, I perceive myself as rather creative. However, during the ‘intelligent lock-down’ (as we call it in the Netherlands) I noticed that I started to lose some of my creativity. I became curious and decided to reflect on the causes of this and to …
We are living in uncertain times. You cannot open a news-app without seeing a headline that comes down to ‘X wants clarity of Y’. Usually it is about a person or organisation needing clarity from another person or organisation before they make a next move or decision. By doing so, we unknowingly place ourselves in an dependent situation, placing the …
Generation management is a much talked and written about subject. Specifically Generation Y is the most discussed generation there is. However, we often read articles about this subject which, in our eyes, seem to increase the gap instead of decrease. That is a pity. At Fresh Habits we believe that mutual understanding is required to …
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The human mind is amazing and stupid at the same time. On the one hand it has the capacity to process and connect information without conscious thought. Often this is the basis for creativity. On the other hand, our mind seems to be unable to cope with unsolved problems and unexecuted tasks. Because of which …
Next to the start of our company, Jochem and I were also training for a full triathlon (3,8km swim, 180km cycling and 42,2km run). Together. Jochem slightly faster than me, but with the knowledge that you are doing it with somebody. Knowing, that somewhere on the track somebody else is fighting. A kind of teamwork. …